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Kinetic energy is a real breakthrough from the world of science fiction to the world of science fact...
GARY F EVANS... more frenetic, more frantic.
JOHN REID According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of abso...
WILHELM WIEN Who would i be today if i did not learn the lessons that life gives, to have the strength against al...
GARY F EVANS... Harry and the Butler
ANTHONY HOPKINS Very few countries operate at the frenetic pace America does.
DEB SUMIEC [Drummond stressed last Saturday's victory over SMRH was] a good team performance with James Henders...
GORDON DRUMMOND David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
J.M. BARRIE I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David.
KITTY LAGARETA So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL It doesn't feel like we're Goliath, it feels like we're David in this matter.
JACK ROBERTS I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a di...
DON RYAN I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, ...
MARGARET MITCHELL It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.
EOIN COLFER I would love a robot butler.
BRETT RATNER All of the stages separated and the kinetic warhead tracked the target, but did not intercept the ta...
CHRIS TAYLOR I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shri...
EOIN COLFER 'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, a...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY I'm simpley one hell of a butler.
SEBASTIAN MICHEALIS Take a 'smoke' break, a Short Mental or Kinetic Excursion. Cigarettes need not be involved.
DANIEL BRYANT GATES They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
KATE MILLETT They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion
KATE MILLETT I thought calming thoughts and visualized serene places. Eventually, i found myself drifting along t...
JAEDA DEWALT Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot. This gives David the slingshot.
MICHAEL GOULDE Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot, ... This gives David the slingshot.
MICHAEL GOULDE Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
WILLIAM STANDISH KNOWLES I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way...
DAVID HASSELHOFF We have Tar Heel Nation in Butler County, Missouri.
GENE HANSBROUGH Every time I thought that, (Butler) would come down and make a great shot.
DEMOND GARTH We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going t...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard...
LEIGH BARDUGO And that is why I hate dogs."
" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel
YANA TOBOSO Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little s...
W.B. YEATS Nous dînerons en Enfer ce soir !
LEONIDAS The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,
BISHOP JOSEPH BUTLER She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.
LARRY MELMAN All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For m...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
LORD BYRON All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be...
ERIK HANSON The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-...
JAMES SCOTT, SENIOR FELLOW, INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY [The pace is frenetic, and the performances straddle the line between the inane and the truly inspir...
LINDA CARDELLINI [The pace is frenetic and the performances straddle the line between the inane and the truly inspire...
LINDA CARDELLINI As a lawyer, David Pepper should follow the law. We feel it is a misleading commercial. He is not th...
BRAD GREENBERG Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amou...
STEVE VAI If I had just done Dayton and (Butler and Warren) counties, we would be profitable by now.
TOM PEEBLES Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON We were losing residents to Butler and Clermont counties because we didn't have any new homes,
DAVID MOORE Anytime you need a drink, or anything-the butler will be at your beck and call.
KATHY MCCORRY I've always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don't really need much sleep at night.
LEANDER PAES But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.
DAVID LEVITHAN It wasn't easy at first. I'm more of a kinetic learner - I tend to remember the part as I move throu...
JOEL JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the ...
TONY PARSONS A storm in a cream bowl.
- James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,
JAMES BUTLER, FIRST DUKE OF ORMONDE We're hoping Butler will only be out for two to four weeks,
DAVE ANDERSON Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
MARGARET MITCHELL We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the e...
STANLEY HAUERWAS How would I feel as a Catholic if I had to have a menorah and Star of David in every room of my shel...
MONICA NELSON And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the ...
BIBLE He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
BIBLE 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.
ROSS BUTLER Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
EOIN COLFER When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats...
HOWARD NEMEROV And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and th...
BIBLE If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention sp...
HOWIE MANDEL Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.
EOIN COLFER Who Goes With Fergus?
Who will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's ...
W.B. YEATS It's going to be Butler and Iroquois Round 4. It should be exciting. We'll have to block out and kee...
TERI KEOWN Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have o...
NALINI SINGH I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.
DAVID WENHAM Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Children are in line to go to the bathroom outside the butler (portable) buildings.
KARLIN ARTIGUE The usability of that lower level is a huge benefit of the new Butler.
JON HLAFTER Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz
J.R. WARD Every time we play Butler it rains, so that's not something new for us.
JOE BRESCHI The Great and Tragic Love of Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent, by Clary Fray, Aged 1...
CASSANDRA CLARE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE At Tech, I was working day and night. At least at Butler, I can take a breather and see my family.
BOB LUCAS When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE David, when it happens... when it happens, David, will you save me?
KATHERINE APPLEGATE Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
MARGARET WEIS He came home and saved David.
JEANNENE BARHAM Windsurfers are fitter than sailors. We're so much more kinetic. In some boats, you can literall...
BRYONY SHAW My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
ADAM PETTY A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We must resist the temptations to be very wasteful of simple things, tossing them aside as of no con...
LORETTA YOUNG David was catnip and kryptonite to me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm just happy to be a small part of a project that will provide housing and economic benefits to Bu...
GEOFF DAVIS When freshmen and their parents arrive in the Butler quad, they have an expectation that they're goi...
JON HLAFTER We have seen David McClain in action for the past year and a half and feel strongly that he is the r...
KITTY LAGARETA
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C. DAVID BUTLER Who's going to be taking the haircuts? It's going to be the pensioners.
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JUDITH BUTLER I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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YANCY BUTLER I'll try anything once.
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YANCY BUTLER Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
YANCY BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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YANCY BUTLER A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
YANCY BUTLER I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
YANCY BUTLER I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
YANCY BUTLER My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
YANCY BUTLER People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
YANCY BUTLER Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
YANCY BUTLER My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
YANCY BUTLER I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
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JUDITH BUTLER We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...
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OCTAVIA BUTLER When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to di...
SAMUEL BUTLER A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We c...
JUDITH BUTLER Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
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GERARD BUTLER No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
OCTAVIA BUTLER And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'...
OCTAVIA BUTLER Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if y...
OCTAVIA BUTLER Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilitie...
OCTAVIA BUTLER And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve...
OCTAVIA BUTLER People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's ot...
OCTAVIA BUTLER No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done an...
OCTAVIA BUTLER Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your ow...
OCTAVIA BUTLER I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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OCTAVIA BUTLER Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comforta...
OCTAVIA BUTLER Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
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SMEDLEY BUTLER Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
JUDITH BUTLER I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
WIN BUTLER The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anyth...
SAMUEL BUTLER Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ...
JUDITH BUTLER I'm not big on the closet.
DAN BUTLER I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
DAN BUTLER There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so r...
DAN BUTLER Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
DAN BUTLER I'm an actor.
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DAN BUTLER I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control o...
DAN BUTLER Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...
SAMUEL BUTLER I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I hea...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r...
SAMUEL BUTLER The money men make lives after them.
SAMUEL BUTLER The want of money is the root of all evil.
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SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to r...
SAMUEL BUTLER In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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PHILIP BUTLER Life is one long process of getting tired.
SAMUEL BUTLER Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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SAMUEL BUTLER A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
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SAMUEL BUTLER It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
SAMUEL BUTLER The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
SAMUEL BUTLER I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging h...
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
SAMUEL BUTLER The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer l...
SAMUEL BUTLER You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
SAMUEL BUTLER If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
SAMUEL BUTLER The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
SAMUEL BUTLER Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
SAMUEL BUTLER Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. A...
SAMUEL BUTLER There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every...
SAMUEL BUTLER I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more s...
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SAMUEL BUTLER If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
SAMUEL BUTLER The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
SAMUEL BUTLER In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
SAMUEL BUTLER When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through eithe...
SAMUEL BUTLER Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated...
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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SAMUEL BUTLER A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
SAMUEL BUTLER The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to ap...
SAMUEL BUTLER Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it b...
SAMUEL BUTLER One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fightin...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword
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SAMUEL BUTLER Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
SAMUEL BUTLER He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only a egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ...
SAMUEL BUTLER I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
SAMUEL BUTLER The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
SAMUEL BUTLER The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he no...
SAMUEL BUTLER A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even ...
SAMUEL BUTLER A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is a...
SAMUEL BUTLER God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
SAMUEL BUTLER Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as h...
SAMUEL BUTLER Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men t...
SAMUEL BUTLER For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
SAMUEL BUTLER People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...
SAMUEL BUTLER If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole stor...
SAMUEL BUTLER Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER